Non-refillable bottle.



J. HOUR IHANy NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE. APPLIGAI'LYJON FILED Nov. 23,1908.

Patentea pec 28, 1909.

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JEREMIAH JosEPHno RIHAn, or racist, NEW YORK.

I NON-REFILIiABLE'BOTTLE.

Application filed November 23, 1908. Serial No. 464.144.

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Eepit known that l, JEREMIAH Josnrn Houunax, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of .Troy, county of RBI1SS- lacr, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful lmprovei'nents in Non-Refillable Bottles, of which the following is a full. clear, and exact description.

This invention relates more particularly to a non-refillable bottle or other container in which the means for preventing it fromheing refilled is located in the lower part thereof.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a simple and efficient device which may be applied to bottles, jars, carboys and other containers adapted to hold a liquid, and which has a follower or piston arranged to move within the container as the liquid is emptied, and which when the container is empty or substantially so will be positively locked and held against movement so that it will be impossible to refill the container through the mouth thereof.

further objoct of the invention is to provide a device which has effective means for locking the movable parts in position to prevent refilling and which may be applied through the bottom of the vessel or bottle in such a way as will not injure its usefulness.

With these and other objects in view, the invention will be hereinafter more particularly described with reference to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and will then be pointed out in the claims at the end of the description.

In the d 'awings, Figure l is a vertical section, partly in elevation, of one form of device embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional plan view above the follower; and Fig. 3 is a detail view' of one form of device that may be employed for holding the follower.

The bottle or container may be of any suitable construction, and. may have the usual bottle neck 11 in the discharge opening or mouth of which may be placed the cork or stopper in the usual manner. A piston or follower 12 is arranged within the bed 13 and this piston may have a suitable pac ing 14 on the under side thereof to preventtheliquid from-passing between the same, and said packing may be attached or held to the piston'in any suitable way. As

shown the piston is provided with a rod 15 which projects on one side thereof and is adapted to enter the lowerpart, 16 of the bottleneck, and on said rod is a dang-e17 of flexible or other-material which is adapted to form a seal therewith by contactwith the parts, as at 18, when the follower is in its extreme upward throw. The rod 15 is held to the piston 12 by a bolt 19 and washer 20, and said piston is normally forced upward in the body 13 by means of a spring 21, the lower end of which fits about a projecting part 2-2 on the bottom or base 23. This base or bottom 23 may be independent of the bottle and may be held to the body thereof by means of screws or otherwise, the heads of which may be seated in counter-sunk holes which may be filled with any suitable material, as 25, to prevent the screws from being removed without detection for the purpose of getting at the interior of the loottle, the spring 21 being of sufficient length and of proper tension to cause the follower or piston 12 to pass upward through the body 13 as the contents of the bottle are removed.

To prevent the piston from being forced downward thereby permitting the bottle to be refilled, I arrange at one or more places anannular. groove 26, and secured to the under part of the piston or follower 12 is a locking device 27. This locking device 27 may be ariouslyconstructed. As shown it consists of a central part 28 from which projects a plurality of arms 29, and these arms are of spring or yielding material and are. adapted in the upward movement of the PlSiOll to enter the annular groove. or

grooves 26. The annular grooves are so formed that the arms 29 may pass by in the upward movement of the piston, and each have shoulders 30 which prevent the piston from being forced downward unless the arms are released from the annular grooves, which can be done only by removing the bottom from the bottle. As will be seen, when the piston or follower is in its upward extreme n'iovement so that the flange 17 will form a seal with the bottle neck the locking device QT will engage the upper annular groove, and prevent the piston from being forced downward, there being as many grooves as desired within the hotly of the bottle or container.

From the foregoing it will be seen that effective means is provided whereby a hotto prevent the liquid from'being poured or forced into the container through the mouth I thereof;

Having thus described. my invention, 1

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent l g In a non-refillable device the combination with a container adapted to hold a .liquid', of a movable piston fitting within the body portion tl1ereot,-'a-rod carried by the piston and adapted to enter the month of the container and seal the same, and means carried by the piston for locking the same in this position.

i 2. The combination with a container having a discharge opening, of a bottom held to the container, a piston movable within the container, a? rod carried by the piston adapted to enterthe discharge openn'ig and seal I the same, a spring normally forcing the rod and thepiston inward, and a device carr ed by thev piston/and adapted to lock the some and prevent downward movementthereof.

3. The combination with 'a'container hav 'ing'an interior annular groove in the body l I I l thereof and provided with a discharge openspring normally forcing the rod and the pis-.

ton inward, and a locking device having a plurality of arms carried by the piston and adapted to engage said groove and prevent: downward movement of the piston.

--i. The combination with a container having a discharge opening, of a pistonprovided with a packingmov'ablewithin the container, means carried by the piston adapted to form a seal with the bottle neck, a spring normally forcing thepiston inward, and means carried by the piston adapted to engage a part of the bottle and prevent downward movement thereot I l i p 5. The ctnnbination with a bottle having a neck, of a piston moval'ile within the bottle and provided with means-to form a seal with said neck. p i 'llhisspecitioation signed and witnessed thiti 19th day of November A. D. 1908.

JEREMIAH JOSEPH HOURlil/LN. Witnesses:

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' 5 JOHN E. I-IEFFRON. 

